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Koi No Yokan, 2021
Price
€12,500
Medium
Acrylic on tarp
Technique
Painting
Dimensions
180 × 240 cm
Year
2021
Edition
1/1
About the Work
“Koi no Yokan (2021) is a large-scale reclining female figure painted on tarp, the artist’s first work of its scale and a pivotal expansion of material and spatial practice. The composition, able to be experienced both horizontally and vertically, presents a cubist-expressionist body rendered primarily in white, where form emerges through fragmentation rather than outline. Accents of green, red, yellow, and peach are layered into the figure, introducing a quiet chromatic pulse that anchors the abstraction in bodily presence. Across the upper field, the phrase KOI NO YOKAN appears in blue and red, referencing oxygenated and deoxygenated blood, introducing a conceptual undercurrent of anticipation and embodied intuition. The Japanese expression, often understood as a premonition of love, extends here beyond the personal into the collective and ecological, positioning love as both imminent and expansive. The work reflects an early curatorial sensibility that later informed exhibitions featuring artists such as Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Keith Haring. Within The DANCE: Between Polarity, the piece operates as a threshold work, where scale, language, and body converge into a state of becoming, held between intuition and form.”
Artist
Bailey Lalonde
View ProfileLALONDE & LALONDE are an international artist duo whose collaborative practice builds on extensive independent careers. Bailey Lalonde (b. 1993) is a Canadian-born, Costa Rica-raised multidisciplinary artist and curator. Her work spans painting, performance, and film, and has been exhibited across New York, London, Paris, Milan, Amsterdam, Malta, Düsseldorf, Costa Rica, and Miami Art Basel. She has curated over 40 exhibitions featuring more than 250 artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. Christi Lalonde maintains an independent studio practice alongside the collaboration, informed by her background as a professional dancer and interior designer. LALONDE & LALONDE is the collaborative painting practice of Bailey and Christi Lalonde. Working on shared canvases, the mother–daughter duo produces figurative paintings through a sustained process of layering, interruption, and reworking. Their approach, both additive and reductive, dissolves singular authorship while maintaining a unified visual language. Situated within contemporary abstract figuration, their work balances gesture and restraint, allowing figures to emerge through materially driven surfaces rather than narrative construction. Rooted in dialogue, the practice operates as an ongoing negotiation of mark-making, where control and intuition remain in constant exchange. The resulting paintings emphasize presence, embodiment, and emotional immediacy. Developed as a focused body of work over the past two years, LALONDE & LALONDE has been exhibited internationally and is held in private collections.
Exhibitions
- EMBRACE MILANO2025, Eterno, Milano, IT
- EMBRACE LONDON2025, Mortimer House by Maslow’s, London, UK
- DOLCE VITA2025, Casa Vista Escondida by Christie’s, Potrero, CR
- EMBRACE2024, Dacia Gallery, New York, NY
- DEKONSTRUKT2023, LoftM71, Düsseldorf, DE